Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

Foxfyre wrote:

Well it's also obvious that you've never lived in Kansas or Texas or Oklahoma or New Mexico, places where they really know corn. In other words, when the corn harvest comes in here, it is field corn that most often shows up in the super markets because most of us prefer the larger ears and kernals and field corn just plain makes better roasting ears and a lot of us think it has a more pleasing texture and just plain tastes better. A fresh barrel of field corn roasting ears goes fast while the cellophane wrapped sweet corn goes begging in the produce department.

You are too precious Fox. Believe me. If you have ever tasted field corn you would know it isn't what they sell in the super markets.

I grew up on a farm and know the difference between the two. We planted corn every year. My brother still owns the farm and will be planting corn, field and sweet. Both are planted in a field by the way. He will get quite a kick out of your explanation of corn.

Farmers often plant one turn of the planter with sweet corn at the edge of a field. We did it all the time. Even cooked in sugar water, field corn is hard to eat. My mom did that one time when she picked from the wrong rows.

Those little ads at the top of the page which I guess subsidize us being able to run our mouths for free here on a2k, had this at the top of the page where we're talking about ethanol:

"Biomass Algae
The Aquatic Plant That Could Solve America's Fuel Crisis. New Report.
www.GreenChipStocks.com/Biomass_Rpt"

Whaddaya think? Ready to run your car on pond scum?

However pond scum is about as appealing to me as one of our locals who modified her VW beetle to run on used cooking oil and goes to McDonalds to fill up. I suppose she has been passing her bi-annual emissions tests though.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport#report

Almost any stuff when burned produces CO2.

The process of gathering/treating/compressing stuff to burn also produces CO2.

ican711nm wrote:

Almost any stuff when burned produces CO2.

The process of gathering/treating/compressing stuff to burn also produces CO2.

You mean the idea to run all the cars, trucks, planes, ships, trains, and other stuff on cooking oil will pollute the planet with more CO2, leading us all to die of heat stroke, or just as bad - drown from melting glaciers and rising oceans? There for a while, I thought that idea could save the planet.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport#report

2. Dr. Denis G. Rancourt, Professor of Physics and an Environmental Science researcher at the University of Ottawa, believes the global warming campaigns do a disservice to the environmental movement. "Promoting the global warming myth trains people to accept unverified, remote, and abstract dangers in the place of true problems that they can discover for themselves by becoming directly engaged in their workplace and by doing their own research and observations. It trains people to think lifestyle choices (in relation to CO2 emission) rather than to think activism in the sense of exerting an influence to change societal structures," Rancourt wrote in a February 27, 2007 blog post. Rancourt believes that global warming "will not become humankind's greatest threat until the sun has its next hiccup in a billion years or more (in the very unlikely scenario that we are still around,)" and noted that even if C02 emissions were a grave threat, "government action and political will cannot measurably or significantly ameliorate global climate in the present world." Rancourt believes environmentalists have been duped into promoting global warming as a crisis. "I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed by military might; and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth. In my opinion, activists who, using any justification, feed the global warming myth have effectively been co-opted, or at best neutralized," Rancourt wrote. Rancourt also questioned the whole concept of a global average temperature, noting, "Averaging problems aside, many tenuous approximations must be made in order to arrive at any of the reported final global average temperature curves." He further explained: "This means that determining an average of a quantity (Earth surface temperature) that is everywhere different and continuously changing with time at every point, using measurements at discrete times and places (weather stations), is virtually impossible; in that the resulting number is highly sensitive to the chosen extrapolation method(s) needed to calculate (or rather approximate) the average." "The estimates are uncertain and can change the calculated global warming by as much as 0.5 C, thereby removing the originally reported effect entirely," he added. Finally, Rancourt asserted that in a warm world, life prospers. "There is no known case of a sustained warming alone having negatively impacted an entire population," he said, adding, "As a general rule, all life on Earth does better when it's hotter: Compare ecological diversity and biotic density (or biomass) at the poles and at the equator." Rancourt added, "Global warming is strictly an imaginary problem of the First World middle class."

It will probably be illegal to mow the grass, icann, so not to worry.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport#report

3. Czech-born U.S. climatologist Dr. George Kukla, a research scientist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University expressed climate skepticism in 2007. "The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being paid," Kukla told Gelf Magazine on April 24, 2007. "What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural," Kukla explained. (LINK) Kukla "said that the accelerating warming of the Earth is not caused by man but by the regularities of the planets' circulation around the Sun," according to a June 4, 2007 article in the Prague Monitor. "The changes in the Earth's circulation around the Sun are now extremely slow. Moreover, they are partially being compensated by the human impact on the climate. I think we will know more in about 50 years," Kukla said. Kukla is viewed as a pioneer in the study of solar forcing of climate changes.

(lyme disease carrying ticks were already found in the thousand islands and along eastern lake ontario last year)

Public health units could also be faced with more cases of the West Nile virus, which can cause meningitis, encephalitis and a polio-like syndrome.
(west nile virus arrived in ontario several years ago and is beginning to spread across canada)

The American Public Health Association raised similar concerns about climate change last week and said its effects on the public could be one of the top challenges facing the health community.